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Benoit Forget and Kord Smith.
Labossière-Hickman. Travis J.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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2019
2019
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123360
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113).
The Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) has regained the interest of the nuclear engineering community in recent years. While TREAT's design makes it uniquely suited to transient fuel testing, it also makes the reactor very challenging to model and simulate. In this thesis, we build a Monte Carlo model of TREAT's Minimum Critical Mass core to examine the effects of fuel impurities, calculate a reference solution, and analyze a number of multigroup cross section generation approaches. Several method of characteristics (MOC) simulations employing these cross sections are then converged in space and angle, corrected for homogenization, and compared to the Monte Carlo reference solution. The thesis concludes with recommendations for future analysis of TREAT using MOC.
by Travis J. Labossière-Hickman.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
113 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Modeling and simulation of The Transient Reactor Test Facility using modern neutron transport methods
Modeling and simulation of TREAT using modern neutron transport methods
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